Altair - UCI Compatible chess engine

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Altair is a strong (hopefully in the future) UCI compatible chess engine written in C++.

Features list

Board representation:

• Move generation (with Magic Bitboards)
• Constrution of position from FEN

Search:

• Negamax
• Alpha-Beta pruning
• Move Ordering (preferably with Killer Heuristics)
• Iterative Deepening
• Transposition tables (with Zobrist Hashing)
• Quiescence search
• Aspiration windows
• Principled Variation search
• Search Extensions Reductions
• Late Move Reduction (LMR)
• Null Move Pruning

Evaluation:

• Material
• Game-Phase dependent evaluation
• Piece-Square Tables
• Pawn Structure
• Evaluation of Pieces
• Evaluation Patterns
• Mobility
• Center Control
• Connectivity
• Trapped Pieces
• King Safety
• Space
• Tempo

Other game phases:

• Opening book
• Endgame tablebases

Miscellaneous:

• UCI protocol implementation
• Time control
• Parallel search

Tests:

• Perft Test

Current To-Do list

Features to implment before setting up SRPT

• Iterative Deepening
• Alpha-Beta pruning
• Move Ordering
  • Hash move ordering
• Separate thread for search

Next

• Search Improvements
  • Quiescence
• Evaluation

Dependencies

Building